Interview with Stanislav Tarasov, Russian analyst, columnist at Regnum and Rex agencies. Mr. Tarasov, what should we expect from the forthcoming developments of NK conflict, when Azerbaijani officials withdraw from the agreement reached in Vienna after Sargsyan-Aliyev meeting, referring to installation of investigative mechanisms on the Line of...

The Astana Times provides news and information from Kazakhstan and around the world. Photo credit: sports.kz ASTANA – The eighth attempt in history for the team of Kazakhstan to stay in the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Championships Top Division, which this year is taking place in Russia, proved unsuccessful. Having started...

SENDAI, Japan: The World Bank announced Saturday a new program to mobilize funds quickly against virulent disease outbreaks after the world was caught unprepared in the 2014 Ebola disaster in West Africa. World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said the new Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility (PEF) will accelerate global and national responses to...

PRESIDENT Barack Obama has nominated an Asian American as the new ambassador to the Philippines, the White House announced on Wednesday, May 18. The announcement came a day after Obama spoke to presumptive Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte over the phone. Obama reportedly applauded the country’s “vibrant democracy.” The nominee, Sung Y....

BRUSSELS: Nato’s build-up in eastern Europe could include up to 3,500 troops, Britain said on Friday, stressing that the planned deployments would not be aggressive towards Russia. Russia’s seizure of Crimea in 2014 has prompted the Western military alliance to consider deterrent forces in the Baltics and Poland which British Foreign...

BRUSSELS: Nato said on Friday it will hold formal talks with Russia before a landmark July summit in Warsaw endorses the alliance’s biggest military build-up since the end of the Cold War, to counter a more assertive Russia. In April, the Nato Russia Council (NRC) held its first meeting since June 2014 but the talks ended in “profound...

Since the start of 2014, more than 1,600 people have died in commercial aviation disasters. That rate is up from the preceding three years and results in part from some shocking incidents, including a pilot suicide and the downing of a passenger jet over Ukraine by an anti-aircraft missile. … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The News...